UC Irvine

Complex Systems outlines a three year long research into various systems of control as well as subsequent methods and modes of resistance that play out within the context of a (artificial) female body and which culminated in an exhibition under the same name at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at University of California, Irvine, on April 23 - May 7, 2022. The essay traces the inter-subjective experience within the notions of subject - object relationship (users and dolls), and subject vs. object formation as the possibility for an artificial auto-interpretation. Recent critical theory on artificial intelligence, machine learning algorithms and socio-political notions of proxies, concepts of substitute and simulation are described against aesthetics, politics and the AI sex doll experience.